Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrator, who describes himself as a retired terrorist (he fought to establish Israel), refers to a belief among Welsh nationalists that an old steel sword briefly on view in England was actually King Arthur's. The narrator points out that Arthur may not have existed, and that whatever sword he owned would surely have rusted to nothing. He admits, however, that the sword in question was engraved with the letter A. And he retails the scholarly notion that long before it belonged to the proprietor of Camelot it was the legendary Sword of Mars, said to make its wielder invincible...
This seems to portend more than what follows, which is a long, fairly routine mini-series of a novel. Without appearing to have much on his mind, the author follows the adventures of three families -- one Welsh, one Russian- American, one Jewish-English -- through three wars. The founding patriarch is a young ship's cook, a Welshman named David Jones, first seen surviving the sinking of the Titanic. He meets and marries a beautiful Russian immigrant named Ludmila in New York City, resettles in England, volunteers for the army, is mistakenly reported dead in World...
...night)." This comes at a point weighty with literary allusions to Crime and Punishment, so the reader suspects hidden meanings and looks up sutky. No allusions here; all it means is "a day and a night." Marvelous; now we know another Russian word. Perhaps the scraps in Welsh, Turkish, Greek and Hebrew offer magical insights, perhaps not. The suspicion is that they are simply authentic sound effects. You skip them, the way in another kind of writing you skip descriptions of furniture and scenery...
...Armenian representatives are "exhausted and sad from the earthquake," Welsh said. "For Armenians, who are really ebullient people they are really toned down." She said the delegation will visit a local Armenian church on Sunday to mark the last of the traditional 40 days of mourning for the quake's victims...
...delegation will leave Cambridge for Washington Tuesday morning before flying home, according to Welsh...